Hey there..

I have a peculiar problem, I have a chat program which when executed on my PC hosts a chatroom. and people can connect to my chat by connecting their clients to my PC (chatip:port), recently ive been thinking ... the exe is just a plain exe which doesnt require any much configuration except its ini file. What if i could host the chat program remotely on a standalone webserver giving me access to its IP and Port.. i made sure that everythings right with my webhost.. now comes the difficuilt part:

I just will upload my file to the server trough FTP.
i wanted to make a UI which could run the exe, kill the process(exe), reply status of exe. but being a learner in PHP i couldnt do that :( is there anyone who can just give me the basic tips (just the basics like how to rn a program and kill the program) i can make my own front end and admin CPanel later..

hoping a positive reply soon.. thanks in advace :)

I am Still Learning ! please Co-operate With Me :)

Hey, I think to run a exe program on the server you can use exec() function. But this will not work on IIS.

Assuming you want to pass arguments to the exe, as you would do at the command line you do that with backticks.

For example:

echo `ls`;

You can also call an exe this way.

More infomation about PHP's shell APIs are available at:
http://www.php.net/exec

HTH!

Regards,
Rich

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